RACF Contract Job Trends in England

IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring RACF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 483 507
Rank change year-on-year -50 +24 +163
Contract jobs citing RACF 14 12 52
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.044% 0.042% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 0.35% 0.35% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 17
10th Percentile £312 £473 £424
25th Percentile £313 £480 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.84% -7.62% -7.73%
75th Percentile £431 £534 £650
90th Percentile £508 £615 £693
UK median daily rate £450 £480 £573
% change year-on-year -6.25% -16.16% +0.62%

All System Software Skills
England

RACF falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,946 3,411 4,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.42% 11.92% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,658 2,213 3,242
10th Percentile £213 £205 £193
25th Percentile £400 £369 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £695 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 78 209
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.59 £15.74
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.05 £18.28
Median hourly rate £48.11 £29.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +63.08% -32.71% +75.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.88 £65.98
90th Percentile £89.96 £79.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £28.41 £47.70
% change year-on-year +67.19% -40.44% +90.79%

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RACF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

RACF job vacancy trend in England

RACF
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF

RACF
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RACF in England over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RACF in England

RACF
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RACF

RACF
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the England region over the 6 months to 26 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England - 9 £325 -
North West - 8 £325 -
London -3 3 £525 +7.97% 2
East of England - 2 £475 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
RACF
UK

RACF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) IaaS
1 1 (7.14%) PaaS
1 1 (7.14%) SaaS
1 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) IPsec
1 1 (7.14%) Kerberos
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Administrator
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Mainframe Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Programmer
3 1 (7.14%) Release Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) ISPF
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.14%) OpenID
2 1 (7.14%) SAML
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
2 1 (7.14%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (85.71%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) zOS
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Change Management
1 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (57.14%) Release Management
2 7 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (21.43%) RBAC
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (14.29%) Runbook
5 1 (7.14%) AI
5 1 (7.14%) BPEL
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.14%) Data Architecture
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (7.14%) Microservices
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) CLIST
1 10 (71.43%) JCL
1 10 (71.43%) REXX
2 8 (57.14%) COBOL
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) ACF2
1 8 (57.14%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (7.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) CA Endevor
2 7 (50.00%) Tivoli
2 7 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (14.29%) zSecure
4 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) IBM
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) BMC
3 1 (7.14%) Broadcom
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow